Rockland County Courthouse, New City, NY
Orange County Government Center, Goshen, NY
In last week's list of links I pointed to the US County Courthouse group on Flickr. There's a map on that page indicating the counties in which a courthouse had been photographed. New York is oddly underrepresented. To prop up the Empire State, and since I have the good fortune of having many vacation days to use in the next few months, I took a day trip today to photograph the Rockland and Orange County courthouses. That sounds impressive but the Rockland courthouse is only a ten minute drive from work and Goshen is a mere half-hour beyond that. I also went sightseeing along the Delaware River (saw two bald eagles!).
The Art Deco Rockland County Courthouse was built in the late-1920s. The courthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the third building on that location since Rockland became a county in 1798. Before it became a county, Rockland was Orange County "South of the Mountains".
Today's Orange County is all north of the mountains. The county seat of Goshen is also home to the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame, which is conveniently located across the street from the county courthouse. The current courthouse was designed in the Brutalist style by Paul Rudolph, then dean of the School of Architecture at Yale, in 1963 and completed in 1967. The building is very cubical.
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